Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era

A Huffington Post Definitive Tech Book of 2013

In as little as a decade, artificial intelligence could match and then surpass human intelligence. Corporations and government agencies around the world are pouring billions into achieving AI's Holy Grail―human-level intelligence. Once AI has attained it, scientists argue, it will have survival drives much like our own. We may be forced to compete with a rival more cunning, more powerful, and more alien than we can imagine.

Through profiles of tech visionaries, industry watchdogs, and groundbreaking AI systems, James Barrat's Our Final Invention explores the perils of the heedless pursuit of advanced AI. Until now, human intelligence has had no rival. Can we coexist with beings whose intelligence dwarfs our own? And will they allow us to?

《我們最終的創造》是詹姆斯·巴拉特（James Barrat）的著作，被《赫芬頓郵報》評為2013年的技術書籍之一。書中指出，人工智慧在不到十年的時間內可能會達到甚至超越人類智慧的水平。全球的企業和政府機構正投入數十億美元來實現人工智慧的終極目標-達到與人類相當的智慧水平。科學家們認為，一旦人工智慧達到這個目標，它將擁有與我們相似的生存驅動力。我們可能被迫與一個比我們想像中更狡猾、更強大、更陌生的競爭對手競爭。

《我們最終的創造》通過對科技先驅、行業監察者和開創性人工智慧系統的介紹，探討了盲目追求先進人工智慧的危險。迄今為止，人類智慧沒有對手。我們能與智慧遠超過我們的存在共存嗎？他們會允許我們存在嗎？